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Hillary on the Move
The secretary of state may be angling for a promotion. Does she deserve one?
Sally Quinn was the first to raise the intriguing possibility: Let Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton trade jobs in ‘12. Why? Well, according to Quinn’s Washington Post column, Hillary has been doing a “terrific job” as Secretary of State. She would therefore add strength to the national ticket.
Is that the way Sally Quinn sees it? Where, precisely, are American interests abroad being better served today, American principles more honored, than under previous administrations? The Pew poll shows that one year after President Obama’s Cairo speech, the U.S. is more hated in Cairo than ever before.
That was Mr. Obama famous outreach to the Muslim world, however. What about Hillary? Have we forgotten her famous “Re-set” button, the one she hauled out for her first well-publicized meeting in March 2009 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov? That was the meeting where we were going to let bygones be bygones. No more rude U.S. interference with Russians ripping off chunks of the Republic of Georgia. Hillary was going to put into practice Vice President Biden’s promise to “re-set” relations with the former Soviet superpower.
Well, the big red “re-set” button — printed in Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet — used the wrong word. Peregruzka actually translates as “overcharge.” Hillary tried to laugh it all off. “We won’t let you ‘overcharge’ us,” she cackled. But Russians take such gaffes seriously. It was an early indication of incompetence at the highest levels. If a Russian foreign minister had made such a big public blunder, he’d soon be named ambassador to South Ossetia and never be heard from again.
We’re more forgiving, thank goodness. Hillary followed up stepping on Russians’ toes in her diplomatic dance with another gaffe — this time in Canada. She went to Ottawa and publicly scolded Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative government for its failure — in Hillary’s eyes — to include abortion in Canada’s new humanitarian efforts in Africa. The Canadians want to fight maternal mortality and think that killing unborn children should not be included. That was the U.S. position under President Reagan and both Presidents Bush. But now, Hillary tongue-lashed our northern neighbors for daring to exclude abortion. Is that how she makes abortion “safe, legal, and rare”? That was the Clinton administration’s mantra. Few of us believed the “rare” part then, but how can even Hillary say it with a straight face now?
Let’s move on. She recently reported — from Ecuador, of all places — that the Obama administration will go into federal court to sue the state of Arizona over its newly passed law on illegal immigration.
This is a first. Never in U.S. diplomatic history has a Secretary of State chosen a foreign venue to attack one of our own United States. Question: Whatever happened to “politics stops at the water’s edge”? It seems under Hillary Clinton it starts there. Question: What is the Secretary of State doing making such an announcement, anyway? Shouldn’t such an announcement — if it is to be made — come from the Justice Department? That is, if you think the U.S. government should be suing Arizona for attempting to pass and enforce a law that merely replicates the current U.S. law that the Obama administration is not enforcing.
It would be difficult to find an area of the world where the U.S. is more powerful, more respected, or where American might is more feared today than it was before this administration took office. We are leaking world respect faster than a BP blowout.
Peggy Noonan is not persuaded by Sally Quinn’s call for Biden and Hillary to swap jobs. Noonan thinks Hillary will hear a siren song in ‘12 and listen to unhappy Democrats. Miss Noonan thinks “sooner or later the secretary of state is going to come under fairly consistent pressure to begin to consider 2012.” What? A Hillary challenge in the Democratic primaries to President Obama?
If things continue to go south for the Obama administration, she’ll be urged on, and urged out. Cooler heads will tell her that if she only remains loyal, she could be the Democrats’ savior in 2016. She would still be about the same age then that Reagan was in 1980, they’ll tell her. Still, there will be the temptation: It’s now or never, they’ll say to her.
Fortune favors the bold. Barack Obama is nothing if not bold. He dared to take on Hillary when most pundits thought she had a lock on the nomination. She fought back with her famous TV ad about the White House telephone ringing at 3 a.m. Her message to voters then: Would Barack Obama be ready to take that call? With her record of foreign policy failures, however, it would be a fair question to ask: Would she?
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Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio is Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Club For Growth and the National Taxpayers Union.
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ElGordo| 6.28.10 @ 6:34AM
Obama will select Hillary as the Dems 2012 VP nominee , especially if Sarah Palin is the Republican Presidential nominee.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 7:49AM
She's harmless. It's the Chomskys who are the most pernicious, not to forget dishonest. And such as he isn't even elected. I met him, and that made it worse-- but anyone who wants to can see how disingenuous it is for Chomsky to call America
"a national security state" when all nations are so.
No point.
Like saying 'all nations are nationalistic'.
Hillary is nothing compared to that. What was the old description? striped pants, merely serving coffee to a third world thug? oh, but today you serve tea to a guy who wants to build a nuke-- 'cause the tea is healthier.
Why I am cynical: materially life 'improves'; people do not, especially third world thugocrats.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 7:57AM
"And such as he isn't even elected"
... that is, at least Hillary's boss was elected; Chomsky and other a-holes, like Ward Churchill, have careers unrelated to electoral politics. They are virtually self-appointed academic crooks of the worst sort.
How has Hillary been a threat to anyone besides perhaps Vince Foster? one cannot say she is both insignificant (striped pants or warm bucket of spit) and important at the same time
Occam's Tool| 6.28.10 @ 6:48PM
See, Ken, occasionally Alan makes statements like these about the execrable Chomsky. Bravo, Alan. Chomsky's a turd wrapped up in a toadstool.
Alan's the TAS comments section John McCain.
scotchieguy| 6.28.10 @ 9:27PM
That's the day I blow my bleepin brains out...or maybe, move to Russia. You all need to read David Brooks--ah, Nytimes rino--article on why no one serious runs for office anymore. Dennis Prager thought it was Brooks' best article ever--funny, the comments were all negative...nothing like a little sleaze to keep interested.
Don L| 6.28.10 @ 6:42AM
You have the fatal flaw of believing that truth, logic, doing what is right, not being a hypocrite, not hurting America, concern for the downtrodden, defense of the nation, or anything else that made america great matters in the least to these Godless leftists. They live in a differnet paradigm where all that matters is winning and gaining ever more power, and they will destroy, with deceptively nice words, anything that gets in their way.
We waste our time trying to expose them. They own the propaganda and education institutions -Rush was right we need to work for their absolute failure and we need to call black, black -white, white and liberals the dangerous evil that they are and represent -unabashedly and without hesitation. They have captured the mindless in their quest to divide and conquer America.
While we speak self-serving philosophical discourse and point fingers and whine about their evil - they laugh at us and our weak warfare - they act - they have unlimited freedom to lie -break law and deceive - they win!
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 8:13AM
AZ is a game, she is merely carrying water. C'mon, as if if anything is going to be done; you wait until Mexicans who are legals and have power, plus illegals who possess influence, reach tens of millions in their number and say: enforce a statute-- in just one state. Yeah, right, sure, it'll "Make A Difference" to the Southwest. Naturally.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 2:40PM
... in a pig's ear.
Timothy L. Pennell| 6.28.10 @ 7:09AM
Sally Quinn? Isn't she that D.C. Party Wh*re"? I'm trying to figure out how she's more than one step removed, from Paris Hilton? She thinks that Hillary is doing a great job? Who cares. "Go get me a drink and lose the clothes."
Like I said: One step removed from that OTHER Society Wh*re.
Christopher Holland| 6.28.10 @ 7:13AM
Hillary Clinton has nowhere to go except out. Her politics are the same as Obama so she can not offer an alternative to him - she she as hell isn't going to be endorsed by the tea party, no matter what she does. And she still has the same old Clinton baggage to haul around. Hillary Clinton is a dinosaur, she is an obnoxious big government liberal when this life form is dieing out all around the planet.
Joellen| 6.28.10 @ 7:17AM
NO, PLEASE NO. Hillary, Bill, Obama, the WHOLE DEMOCRAT PARTY has got to go. Then we need to get RID of the RINOS. This country needs to purge itself of all the LEFTIST and the CLINTONs are just two of them. By the way - what has Hillary ever accomplished.? I will never understand how the people who vote in favor of her do so. Either they really are ignorant as to what is going on, or they are part of the problem and embrace their socialist agenda. Either way - time for them to go.
Rebecca| 6.28.10 @ 7:35AM
She doesn't have stature or gravitas. A woman should not lead us. It sounds chauvanistic, but I do feel strongly that we are best led by men. We do not have a Thatcher, yet anyway.
Hillary has been called a silly school girl too. We still, at least for a while live in a superpower, and the leader in the eyes of the world is the president. Somehow silly school girl and most powerful person in the world don't seem to go together.
I hope the goof balls that thought it would be cool to elect a black man have learned their lesson about identity elections and we don't start to hear how wonderful it would be to elect our first women president (although I do think if it were Palin it would be an improvement, but am not backing that choice now).
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:30AM
"She doesn't have stature or gravitas."
Why those such as she and Willian Rogers are picked for State.
Kellee| 6.28.10 @ 10:28AM
That makes a lot of sense considering the great situation we are in now under male leadership. Your comment is silly. If they can prove to me they are capable of fulfilling their duties while also respecting my freedoms, I don't care what or what's not swinging between their legs. (FYI: I'm not defending Hillary at all. I would never vote for her, not because she is a woman and not because some person called her a "silly school girl", but because she believes the exact opposite of me on just about every subject.)
stephanie| 6.28.10 @ 8:47PM
obama is a silly school girl. shorts and saddles shoes on the golf course and he sits like a woman, legs crossed. he is a metro sexual who can't run a
7-11 let alone a country anywhere but into the ground. and I have to agree with the Kellee, your post is silly.
scotchieguy| 6.28.10 @ 9:36PM
Ever watched him throw a baseball?
Jeff| 7.1.10 @ 5:00PM
Um, it's worth noting that Hillary was called a silly school girl by the oppressive, insane communist dictator that controls North Korea. Probably in your best interest to not refer back communist tongue lashing against our leaders to support your position, no matter how much you do not like HRC.
Melvin| 6.28.10 @ 7:45AM
JoeEllen, Come on now aren't you being a little too harsh on the Sec. of State? Hillary Clinton has restored the white in Africa's Tidy Whiteys by handing out washing machines to African Women, and done more for birth defects for Chinese kids by handing out Chinese made lead based toys to Chinese kids during one of her visits.
I think the old girl has done quite a bit of damage in a short amount of time don't you think?
The world and the salivating Arab Nations have finally made Israel the pariah of the world, in no small part to Hillary. Iran, now has nuclear weapons, and the bespectacled pot-bellied cretin from North Korea not wanting to be outdone by Iran, is now saying, "We need more nuclear stuff to protect us from the, "Great Satan."
Yep, I'd say the old girl is ready for VP, especially in light of the, Joe, the, "Smart Ass," Biden.
I wouldn't call these two offices the Sec. of State or Vice President. They are more should be more aptly names. Office of the Chief Court Jester, and Undersecretary of the Court Jester.
In actual reality, if Hillary Clinton even got to be VP or Heaven forbid President, all she would do is continue the carnage that Obama started.
Too bad that there are extremely stupid Americans out there willing to vote for this woman, in hopes for more of this hopey, changey crap.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.28.10 @ 8:09AM
Sally Quinn is simply suggesting that they rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:36PM
haha......,hoho.......guffa...guffa..love the humor of these responses. The whole D.C. crowd is better than SNL. We'll be cryin' in our beer if we don't vote their a--s's out in Nov.
Louis Jenkins| 6.28.10 @ 9:06AM
Will Osane get rid of Hillary? Will he get rid of Biden? Maybe he will get rid of both.
"It would be difficult to find an area of the world where the U.S. is more powerful, more respected, or where American might is more feared today than it was before this administration took office. "
The buck stops there. Regardless of who Obama puts in as replacements it will be the same old same old. Gaffes, mis-speaks, and other such mumbo jumbo. Hillary is running around the world doing damage, and Biden is doing the same. Obama is out to run this country into the ground, and is doing an admirable job.
davelnaf| 6.28.10 @ 9:20AM
The political land sharks in Washington smell Obama’s blood in the water. But Hillary never needed a blood sent for her to start circling the Bamster; it is something she has been doing since day one.
While a VP switch in 2012 would be Hillary shark repellent for Obama it would further chum up the waters of US foreign policy.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:34AM
You are reading too much into it.
You choose a cheerleader for a team because she is meant to be a cheerleader.
WillianInWien| 6.28.10 @ 10:16AM
Was it not Nelson Rockefeller who stated that he did "not want to be vice president of anything"? Does anyone think that Hillary (and Bill "you get two) wants to understudy BHO for four more years? Besides, switching Hillary and Joe would just give Joe a bigger stage to screw up on. If the prez continues to wallow in the 40 percentile, Hillary will ride to the rescue in 2012. Power just cannot wait, not to mention age and appearance!
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:42PM
Poor Ole Joe isn't getting any younger. Me thinks it's early Alzheimers. He needs to be put out to pasture, not changing places with anyone. Put Barney out there with him, duh duh d duh d duh, and they can hold hands.
The Army Aviator| 6.28.10 @ 10:27AM
Ain't no way, Hillary is EVER going to be second bananna to Obama! I'll tell you what she's going to do. 1) If the Liberal Socialist Democrats get waxed in the November election cycle, Hillary will find some "foreign policy" issue to disagree with ZERO. She'll do "a McChrystal," and get Obama all ticked, then RESIGN in protest. 2) The hyper-partisan media will take Hillary's side and promote the crap out of her "issue." 3) Hillary will then launch her "exploratory" committee and begin to run down and run against ZERO. She may actually knock him out of the running in 2012, get so popular with the Democrat BASE, that ZERO pulls a LBJ move and bows out. 4) Hillary carries the flag for the Liberal Socialists and WINS in 2012, much to the chagrin of all of us who wear the uniform!
Edwin Sineath| 6.28.10 @ 10:55AM
Agree with 1) and 2) but I would amend 3) a bit. The Zero will pull the LBJ lever and bow out (third week of March, 2012 I'd say) but I don't think Hillary will get the nomination this time either. Look for Evan Bayh for that, or maybe even James Webb of Virginia, with Brian Schweitzer and Brad Henry as possibles. I think it's going to be a wide open primary season for the Dems in '12, a redux of 1968. And if the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate Palin (and since they nominated Mad John in '08 we know that can be that stupid) then whoever gets the Dem nomination (even if it's the Zero) will win in a landslide.
scotchieguy| 6.28.10 @ 9:44PM
First guy who made sense here. If the repubs screw up again, and nominate that moron Palin, the dems could nominate Barney Frank, and still win in a landslide. It just keeps getting worse...
bull-gator| 6.29.10 @ 8:06AM
well, Palin is not a moron, but she is unelectable due to the fact she doesn't appeal to independents or cross over democrats. Chris Christie with Paul Ryan as his runing mate would make a formidable, electable ticket that would have wide appeal to conservatives and independents alike.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:51PM
NOW THIS IS A WINNING TICKET. CHRISTIE/RYAN IN 2006
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:59PM
Or let's not forget Condeleeza Rice. Now there's one brilliant woman. So maybe....Rice/Ryan....or Christie/Rice....
Nelson H.| 7.1.10 @ 12:06PM
I'll take milk with my Rice-Christies.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:50PM
Yes, but just think. She's got more spunk than all of them put together and more hanging between her legs than Barney could ever dream of...duh duh d duh d duh...that's all folks.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 10:47PM
Egads....what a nightmare. Can't wait for McChrystal to get his 4 Star retirement and writes his book. He'll make a fortune if he let's us in on "the truth."
Nelson H.| 7.1.10 @ 12:17PM
Brilliant analysis and point-for-point exactly what I have been saying to friends since HRC was knocked out in 2008. I have felt for many years that HRC seizing power has a horrible epic inevitability to it, representing the end of the American epoch, like a long, dark chapter from the pen of Edward Gibbon. There is no doubt in my mind that Obama will not be the Democratic candidate in 2012. The powers-that-be must surely see that someone else, someone much harsher will be needed during the turbulent next term, when the economy goes bust.
Brian| 6.28.10 @ 10:29AM
Promotion!?
Absolutely not.
Someone, please articulate how under Hillary's tenure in office has the United State's standing in the world improved.
How under Hillary's tenure in office has anything on the world stage improved?
She and her boss have failed miserably in their 19 month on-the-job training period.
A period in American history which can only looked back on as an object lesson in why we should not reward positions of power to individuals because they are members of some social victim class or because it is their time or it is time to "give someone a chance." We have devolved to a point where these positions of responsibility are treated like a participation trophy at a local soccer game.
It time to correct this mistake and start putting grown-ups in these offices.
Let's give Hillary her pink slip and move on to someone interested in doing this job as expected.
Siegfried X| 6.28.10 @ 10:49AM
The only situation in which Hillary might be chosen as VP would be if Republicans have a female running for either president or VP. Even though there is tremendous interest in having a female in the White House, the Loony Left really doesn't trust Hillary, thinking she's too moderate. She also has a lot of baggage from years of scandals.
molonlabe28| 6.28.10 @ 11:27AM
Hillary will quit this year on a well-orchestrated difference of opinion with Obama so that she can gear up for 2012.
You can see it coming a mile away.
She will probably be the DNC nominee for President in 2012.
Louis Jenkins| 6.28.10 @ 11:31AM
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=171493
Look up the link. Obayah may have a way to take off with his re-election come what may.
Tom in Michigan| 6.28.10 @ 11:32AM
These are just a few of Clinton’s blunders at State, not to mention allowing the realignment of our former ally Turkey and our former friend Brazil with Iran and, HRC's outrageous treatment of the Honduran people and our ally, Israel to whom we have made a moral as well as a political alliance – all the result of failed leftist “statecraft.”
Furthermore, as somebody who speaks a foreign language (Japanese) as well as English, I can attest to the ridiculousness of the "Reset" button episode. If Clinton's State Department had the brains of a fifth-grader, they could have simply gone to Google/translate to get the correct word. Sheer incompetence exacerbated by all the temerity of ignorance.
Realistically, Obama placed Clinton at State as payoff for backing his campaign after hers tanked (it was also payoff for Mr. Bill so he could resume his goatish “extracurricular activities” with her out-of-Dodge) and payback so the world could see for itself what a complete failure she would be in the State job, let alone as President. Her chances of being elected are now exactly zero and, Obama know it. Besides, the East and West Coast leftists, self-anointed “elites” that they are absolutely loathe the Clintons and consider them white trash who’ve served their purpose admirably and can now be cast aside at will.
No, the bottom line is the left has shown all it's ignorance (don't forget Obama's completely inappropriate bow/handshake to the Japanese Emperor - I know the Japanese culture as well as the language) and incompetence to the world. It's time this nation cast the American left on the ash heap of history along with all their failed antecedents.
Sally Quinn is fool and a tool of the left to put forth such a nonsensical proposition.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:03PM
Give the Alinsky Fools enough rope and they'll hang themselves.
Northern Rebel| 6.28.10 @ 12:43PM
Alan Brooks:
I have watched in amusement, at your attempt to rehabilitate yourself into a right leaning moderate.
This Hillary flap must have you tied up in knots!
You worship the woman, the "real radical Clinton" so you are forced to rope-a-dope, and make believe she's insignificant, when you know she is just as big of a one world communist, as "President" Anti-Christ.
The only difference between the two, is:
1) Maobama is a man, therefor easier to elect
2) He hasas the ability to make people like him. (Hillary has zero)
3) He is black, thereby assuaging the guilt of white liberals, for something they didn't do
4) Maobama won't look like an old hag in 10 years
5 Maobama doesn't possess a voice that reminds you of your ex-wife
Other than that, their ideologies are exactly the same:
Blame America, cut her down to size, and install the "rules for radicals" agenda, embracing Saulinsky's philosophies, with George Soros' checkbook.
Cut the crap Alan, we are watching you, and we all know who you are.
Nice try.
Bob Miller| 6.28.10 @ 12:53PM
If the whole lot of these master politicians exchanged jobs with random people on the street, the nation (but maybe not the street) would benefit hugely.
Ray| 6.28.10 @ 1:11PM
That reminds me of a science fiction story can't, remember who wrote it, that had all government leaders picked by a lottery instead of by elections. The premise being that anyone who actively seeks that kind of power is inherently corrupt and are the ones that should be denied that power, so we're better off just randomly picking people because the chance of having a corrupt individual in government is greatly reduced.
I think the same principal can be applied to incompetent government "leaders" as well.
Occam's Tool| 6.28.10 @ 6:50PM
I believe it was by Asimov.
dudette| 6.28.10 @ 1:02PM
Hillary is SO yesterday I don't see how she can have any attraction except to the moveon.org birkenstock group who are caught in a timewarp. She is irrelevant and the world has moved on. She appeals only to true believers who have no grounding in reality.
Bob Miller| 6.28.10 @ 1:42PM
It seems as if grounding in reality is in short supply lately. Our wonderful educators and journalists have seen to that.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:07PM
That whole 60's D.C. Woodstock group is SO yesterday. Give them all bongs and send them on their way in Nov.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:09PM
Opps....I meant to say Sons and Daughters of Woodstock. Time waits for no one....it passes you by.
DIZZZgusTED| 6.28.10 @ 2:26PM
Currently we endure the
I'm black & entitled to Alinski-ite the world
Hillary is the I endured Slick Wilie to get where I am, entitled Alinski-ite
Scary thing is, in a Rasmussen Poll this broad behind-ed sycophant of Alinski is voted most likely to succeed if elected Pres.
Northern Rebel| 6.28.10 @ 2:54PM
Speaking of progressives, Robert Byrd finally died. All I wanted was for him to be removed from power, though obviously death was the only way to do it.
The former KKK Cyclops pretended to care about the Constitution, but his real love was the rules of the senate, and the power it gave his ilk.
Good Riddance!
My sincere condolences to his poor family, who were forced to endure 92 years of his insufferable condescending arrogance.
No truth to the rumor he changed his home state's name to "West Byrdginia", during his last power thrust.
Occam's Tool| 6.28.10 @ 6:51PM
May Senator Byrd rest in peace, with his fellow guanos.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:13PM
Gonna be alot of Byrd Buildings, Hwys, Bridges etc. etc. needing to be renamed. Wonder if they named the place he's going to now after him? Did they bury him in his white hood?
DaveS| 6.28.10 @ 5:25PM
If promotion is based on merit, what could possibly support her promotion? The 'rest' button with the wrong word, speaking Spanish when addressing the Brazilians, emboldened Hamas and Iran, an Iran with enough nuclear material to eventually make the bomb she said they won't be permitted to have, the Honduras debacle - you name it: it turns to shit.
John II| 6.28.10 @ 7:12PM
Let's face it. The keynote is that Associate Professor Rodham is an extraordinarily unpleasant human being. An assistant Harridan-in-Chief to the Narcissist-in-Chief would project a certain comic justice, I suppose, but I don't reckon it'll happen. Biden wouldn't approve of being shoved aside by a (let's see--how would he describe her?) . . . by a smart-ass bubble-butt.
BREDNG10| 6.28.10 @ 7:58PM
RESET in Russian = 10 Russian spies arrested ! They probably will feel right at home in the Obama administration.Maybe they could compare notes with Bill Ayers and the rest of the commies thru-out the administration.Some things never change.Since the 1940`s and the 1950`s commies have been part of the dem`s DNA.
Yosemeti Sam| 6.29.10 @ 2:58AM
" Hillary on the Move ...."
Oh yeah, in a certain scenario - along with Pelosi and Boxer, she'd make a savory witchs' brew of anaphylactic Jim Jones Kool-Aid for America.
Chip off her old husband!
This SOS will make Americans cry out with an SOS!
Richard Baker| 6.29.10 @ 6:55AM
Promote her to civilian.
Bill Austin| 6.29.10 @ 11:09AM
Most of you guys sound like a bunch of haters here discussing all the negative things they can drum up. Truth is you are simply jealous of Hillary because she is much smarter than you and has more going for her than you negative people have going for you. As for Obama, he is doing the best job he can do as president. Mr. Obama is our president and deserves EVERYONE'S support. As the saying goes, "if you can't say anything nice about someone, say NOTHING at all."
capitalist| 6.29.10 @ 1:26PM
ROFLMAO!!!!
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:27PM
Bill....what you're reading here is extreme frustration. You're asking us to respect this POTUS. News Flash!!!! Respect must be earned...it is not given freely and "O" has had 18 months to prove his capability. He is floundering and along with it, taking our country down the tubes. You under estimate the intelligence of the Silent Majority. You really need to take the "plank out of your eye."
LibsAreCommies| 6.29.10 @ 12:53PM
Remove all these Commies from power now, "By any means necessary" before they can do any more harm to our nation.
RCV| 6.29.10 @ 2:25PM
Ah, the patriotic, Constitution-loving right speaks out.
zolon5| 6.29.10 @ 11:33PM
RCV....You got might want to read up on your American History. We do love our Constitution and the Founding Fathers who wrote it for us. We don't want anyone messing with our traditional morals and values. Some of us express our passions more extremely than others. Don't make fun of what many have died for. You may want to start by reading the 5000 Year Leap.
RCV| 6.30.10 @ 5:57PM
I am an avid American history reader, and a great admirer of the brilliant men who wrote our Constitution and led our Revolution. My office is adorned with portraits of Madison, Washington and Jefferson. I am not making fun of either the Constitution, our freedoms, which I cherish, or our country, which I would die for. However, people who would dismiss the cherished rights we have in this country to elect the leaders of our choice and the people we wish to represent us and enact the policies we favor -- as we did in 2008 -- and throw around veiled thrests of violence - "by any means necessary" - get no respect from me. Republicans lost in 2008. Get over it. If you want a different result and different policies, organize and work for change within our Democratic Republic.
capitalist| 6.29.10 @ 1:25PM
Ms. Quinn is running on the assumption that Maobama will be elected again in '12. She really needs to take her head out of the sand.
Cuffs| 6.29.10 @ 2:10PM
For 2012 why don't we just pick candidates
at random out of a metropolitan phone book.
Could we do worse than what we have now?
Janine| 6.29.10 @ 10:55PM
One-way ticket out of the country I hope?
Richard Baker| 6.30.10 @ 8:00PM
I believe that it was Mr. Justice Jackson who said that the Constitution was not a suicide pact. Mr. jefferson told us how to deal with tyranny. If it comes to that.
RCV| 6.30.10 @ 8:48PM
Mr. Jefferson would also be appalled at those who appeal to "the Founders' intent" as decisive on any issue:
"The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigotsin religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this
country will endure."
Richard Baker| 6.30.10 @ 8:01PM
Mr. Jefferson, not jefferson.
Flabby Hoosier| 7.3.10 @ 8:59AM
"If things continue to go south for the Obama administration..." See, this is something I don't get. Why posit this? This isn't a question anymore. There's not a damn thing to be done about it because these are true believers we're talking about. They cannot be reasoned with. They are impervious to facts. They do not care about the results of their malfeasance. They cannot be turned aside. If every member of the administration were sent on permanent vacation, history would still record they were the most mendaciously incompetent crew of wreckers in the history of the Republic. But of course it wouldn't matter because they meant well. After all, Hitler was a vegan non-smoker who loved dogs.
John Pickett | 7.3.10 @ 5:49PM
Maybe Billary wants some of what Maobama is itchin for. I think we Patriots can handle this one too. Audit the fed, shut Billary's mouth and show Congress, the Senate, Maobama, Bitemebiden the door! Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of all those qwazi socialist conservatives can take their rhetoric and spew it from uuuummmmm Prison maybe!!!
rhurt| 7.3.10 @ 11:55PM
Great point from Mr. Pickett-spoken like a patriot. Hilary is just as bad as Obama. She agrees with taking away State's rights, political free speech, and our Guns. She sounds like a student of Obama's Fascist-liberal training, and the leader of the Fascist-Liberal-Democrats.